About.

Dahlia Kaplan is a licensed psychotherapist and criminologist in Florida who works with individuals and organizations to address mental health concerns, evaluate risk, and provide research based interventions and recommendations to improve outcomes. Dahlia is passionate about providing high-quality, fair, and just treatment, regardless of background, based on individualized risks and needs. She strives to leverage her advanced knowledge of clinical and forensic psychology to enhance understanding of mental health and offender populations within the community and advocate for positive social changes.

Dahlia has twelve years of experience working with at risk youth in secure environments providing mental health, substance abuse, and sex offense specific treatment . During that time, she worked as a therapist conducting individual, group, and family therapy and then as a clinical administrator developing, training, and overseeing the clinical programming of over 30 juvenile residential programs across four states. She has created and provided clinical trainings on a wide range of mental health topics for clinical, operational, and academic staff. Dahlia also has years of experience providing counseling services to military and their family members and providing sex offense specific treatment to adults in the community.

In addition to being a licensed mental health counselor, Dahlia is also a qualified supervisor for mental health counselors. She is qualified to provide sex offense specific therapy to juveniles and adults, and is an active clinical member of the Association for Treatment of Sexual Abuse at the state and national level. Dahlia is also a Certified Forensic Mental Health Evaluator and Certified Child Custody Evaluator. She holds a master’s degree in clinical psychology from the University of Central Florida and a doctorate in forensic psychology from Walden University.